This Policy Brief places the debate on energy matrices and uneven development within the framework of the current discussions that guided the UN Conference on Sustainable Development, Rio + 20....
The Indian proposal of a BRICS bank to finance projects in emerging countries was strengthened in the meeting between the Indian chancellor, S.M Krishna, and his Chinese counterpart, Yang Jiechi....
Just before the New Delhi Summit, there were indications that, despite considerable growth over the last decade, the original four BRICS members still had a number of weaknesses and vulnerabilities....
The Group of the 20 (G20) - which has representatives from the 19 largest economies in the world plus the European Union - was established as a permanent and informal...
This Policy Brief analyzes the evolution of two indicators of BRICS countries' scientific production capacity and innovation: R & D investment and the intellectual property registration of industrial innovation products...
This paper discusses the agenda of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio + 20), with a special focus on common understanding efforts on the "green economy"....
In this BRICS Monitor, the preliminary positions of Russia in relation to the Rio + 20 conference are discussed, explaining their expectations regarding the possible results of the negotiations, exposing...
In this Policy Brief, we argue that it is possible to analyze the relevance of the BRICS countries and their cities in this production of new protagonisms from a category...
This Policy Brief addresses the outcomes of the Fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness (HLF-4), held from November 29 to December 1 in Busan, South Korea....
This Policy Brief examines the evolution of BRICS relative participation in global scientific and technological production as an indicator of ongoing realignments in the global political economy. At the outset,...